Posted by muffled on October 19, 2006, at 11:19:52
In reply to Re: resting room, posted by Dr. Bob on October 19, 2006, at 7:34:40
> > Have you ever comsidered the option of a 'resting room' forum where you can voluntarily put yourself if you are losing it or just don't feel up to the main forums or can be put in by site owner/mods. You can sound off there but don't have access to other areas.Other people can choose to 'visit' you in there but for the purpose of being supportive rather than tearing you off a strip or two.
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> That's an interesting idea. People could sound off, but would need to be supportive?
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> Bob***So a resting room is to sound off, OR is it to rest?
I don't understand.
If we need to express kinda bad thots, we can goto the wrtiting board.
If we want to torture ourselves we can goto Admin ;0
If you want to have a 'discussion' you can goto politics.
You wanto just play, goto social....
And so on.
It would seem to me we have ENOUGH boards.
What we need is to maybe have a little more leniency about blocking on certain boards. (eg. politics, writing) There should be FAR more leniency given the nature of those boards. It could even be written clearly on top that these boards could possibly be more intense and therefore possibly triggering to some.
Mebbe more use of pbc's on those boards rather than blocks.
In that way those boards could be a place of genuine discussion and expression, and also of learning how to better communicate by way of notification by pbc's.
Then if those are not heeded, then perhaps short, but escalating blocks as necessary.
Mebbe a diff. blocking formula for those boards.
My thots.
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